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FULL THE CHOKER (Jude Alderson) London 2014 Sarah Minns, Anna Harvey, Brian Smith Walters
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Choker
- Composer: Alderson Jude
- Libretto: Jude Alderson loosely based on Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Platform Theatre Central Saint Martins, London, UK, Amazonia Music Theatre
- Recorded: August 2 & 3, 2014
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Sarah Minns, Anna Harvey, Brian Smith Walters, David Monteith, Nola Rae
- Conductor: Steve Edis
- Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble
- Choreographer: Nola Rae
- Stage Director: Jude Alderson
- Stage Designer: Isabella Van Braeckel
- Costume Designer: Suzy Peters
Information about the Recording
- Published by: tete a tete
- Date Published: 2014
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Genesis
Amazonia is a music theatre company that creates and produces radical new works and collaborates with leading musicians, choreographers and performers. Amazonia offers popular, potent and topical new works – always striving for excellence, combining the force of political fact with poetic imagination. Our style encompasses many disciplines, with a commitment to new work at the highest possible standard.
About
THE CHOKER – loosely based on Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace – is a witty, savage tale for our time.
Martha, our heroine’s dull, stable life with fireman and husband, Lenny is turned on its head when she meets Jean – a seductive woman with a hedonistic streak. Jean’s influence – alongside that of her glamorous husband, Monty – promises Martha a new way of living: shopping trips, a ball at the Dorchester, the loan of a diamond necklace – luxury Martha lusts after. Euphoric shopping trips are followed by mounting credit card debts and then, Martha loses the necklace. Like Cinderella in reverse, the glittering ball at the Dorchester now a distant memory, Martha is reduced to working in nightmarish conditions in a meat-‐packing factory and strip club. Their final meeting brings the opera to a shocking conclusion. This multi-‐disciplinary opera offers a cast of fourteen, three dynamic principal singers, seven dancers, one actorand a mime – whose presence and force lift the drama to magical heights.